The likes of Odegaard, Maddison and Macca etc would inevitably turn crap and struggle if they played for us. Meanwhile Bruno would look just as good if not better if he played for their respective teams.
Only exception would be KDB who is genuinely world class but even then I think a Bruno...
If your defence concedes 0.1xG shots 10 times, on average you will concede 1 goal. The goal you concede though will be from a 0.1xG chance so it looks bad even though that is the expected outcome.
In 20 games Onana has a +2.9 xG prevented which means he's actually saved 2.9 more goals than...
Right footed players are left wingers and left footed players are right wingers. Even if they look good, they will still be better on the other side.
Something so simple yet our scouts and fans can’t comprehend. Instead we’ve wasted money on Sanchez, Mkhitaryan, Sancho, Pellistri etc over the...
Fred was our best midfielder out of possession. Which means in a match like against Brighton he will be the best midfielder for 57% of the match. ETH always mentions the lack of effort and running but sells the best runner and presser we had.
Mount and Eriksen are worse versions of Bruno. Their...
Players that stepped up in the big game: AWB, Bruno, Garnacho*
Players that choked and went missing: DDG, Eriksen, Sancho, Fred
Everyone else was average.
In the end having too many in category 2 instead of category 1 is what made the difference.
He did the best setup he could with what he had. Players like Eriksen and Sancho are not what you want in a game against city where you can't afford any passengers. But in hindsight it was correct to play them so we could sub them off rather than sub them on. He gave us enough of a chance to win...
Need to win both for it to be considered a successful season.
Losing out on either CL or getting spanked by city in the final will be a sour end to the season and feel like no progress was made.
His biggest asset is he is left footed. Left footed right wingers are the hardest position to find players for imo. Until we have another left footed attacker, his position will be relatively safe. Notice how all the players he is being compared with ITT are right footed?
So far he’s been a one...
AWB is the one to keep if we had to make the choice.
If we needed offence, there’s so many RB choices better than Dalot.
If we needed defence, there’s not many (or any) better than AWB.